Research interests

I am interested in health services research, especially as it relates to stigmatized conditions and marginalised populations. My key interests are sexual health and drug and alcohol use, generally in relation to young people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTI people. I am a Board Member of ACON Health (New South Wales’ leading health promotion organisation specialising in HIV and LGBTI), and in partnership with ACON, I run the biennial Sydney Women and Sexual Health (SWASH) survey.

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Selected grants

2012

Understanding how GPs make their decisions to refer or not to refer patients to lifestyle risk factor modification services; Mooney-Somers J; Heart Foundation of Australia/Research Support.

2011

New hazards for young women sex workers: the effects and crises arising from the implementation of recent anti-trafficking laws in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Page K, Maher L, Phlong P, Mooney-Somers J; University of California/Pacific Rim Research Program.

Preventing sexually transmitted infections in same-sex attracted young women: An examination of perceived vulnerability and safer sex negotiation; Mooney-Somers J; University of New South Wales/Research Support.

Olsen, A., Mooney-Somers, J. (2014). Is there a problem with the status quo? Debating the need for standalone ethical guidelines for research with people who use alcohol and other drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33(6), 637-642. [More Information]

Deacon, R., Mooney-Somers, J., Treloar, C., Maher, L. (2012). At the intersection of two marginalised identities: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people's experiencesof injecting drug use and hepatitis C seroconversion. 12th Social Research Conference on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases, University of New South Wales: National Centre in HIV Social Research.

Smith, K., Mooney-Somers, J. (2011). Beyond the Illustration of Research Data: Using professionally facilitated image making techniques to enable participants to describe, enhance and extend data originally captured using traditional text-based methods of research. 3rd Annual Arts and Health Conference: The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing 2011, Not-Known.

Mooney-Somers, J., Smith, K. (2011). Beyond the Illustration of Research Data: Using professionally facilitated image making techniques to enable participants to describe, enhance and extend data originally captured using traditional text-based methods of research. 2nd International Visual Methods Conference, Not-Known.

Lewis, P., Mooney-Somers, J., Kerridge, I., Jorden, C., Smith, K., Bennett, D., Patterson, P. (2010). Growing up and having cancer: Early Findings from the growing up with cancer research project. Youth Health Forum November 2010 - Taking the reins: Preparing young people with chronic illness for transition to adult care, Australia: NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health.

Mooney-Somers, J., Olsen, A., Scott, R., Akee, A., Maher, L. (2010). Questions of pragmatism in community-based participatory research with an Indigenous Community. Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated Social Science Methodology Conference ACSPRI 2010, Australia: ACSPRI: Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Ind.

Mooney-Somers, J., Smith, K., Kerridge, I., Jordens, C. (2012). Growing up with Cancer: Self-portraits by young people growing up with cancer. Parramatta Riverside Theatres, Sydney, Australia: Centre for Values, Ethics and The Law in Medicine (VELiM).

Olsen, A., Mooney-Somers, J. (2014). Is there a problem with the status quo? Debating the need for standalone ethical guidelines for research with people who use alcohol and other drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33(6), 637-642. [More Information]

Deacon, R., Mooney-Somers, J., Treloar, C., Maher, L. (2012). At the intersection of two marginalised identities: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people's experiencesof injecting drug use and hepatitis C seroconversion. 12th Social Research Conference on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases, University of New South Wales: National Centre in HIV Social Research.

Mooney-Somers, J., Smith, K., Kerridge, I., Jordens, C. (2012). Growing up with Cancer: Self-portraits by young people growing up with cancer. Parramatta Riverside Theatres, Sydney, Australia: Centre for Values, Ethics and The Law in Medicine (VELiM).

Smith, K., Mooney-Somers, J. (2011). Beyond the Illustration of Research Data: Using professionally facilitated image making techniques to enable participants to describe, enhance and extend data originally captured using traditional text-based methods of research. 3rd Annual Arts and Health Conference: The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing 2011, Not-Known.

Mooney-Somers, J., Smith, K. (2011). Beyond the Illustration of Research Data: Using professionally facilitated image making techniques to enable participants to describe, enhance and extend data originally captured using traditional text-based methods of research. 2nd International Visual Methods Conference, Not-Known.

Lewis, P., Mooney-Somers, J., Kerridge, I., Jorden, C., Smith, K., Bennett, D., Patterson, P. (2010). Growing up and having cancer: Early Findings from the growing up with cancer research project. Youth Health Forum November 2010 - Taking the reins: Preparing young people with chronic illness for transition to adult care, Australia: NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health.

Mooney-Somers, J., Olsen, A., Scott, R., Akee, A., Maher, L. (2010). Questions of pragmatism in community-based participatory research with an Indigenous Community. Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Incorporated Social Science Methodology Conference ACSPRI 2010, Australia: ACSPRI: Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Ind.